Iraq: Remind Me Why We Did This Again?

I take no pleasure in writing this. I can’t imagine how my fellow Americans who lost loved ones fighting and dying in Iraq, or Iraqi civilians who suffered the same, are feeling at the news coming out of that country at the moment.

We were told “mission accomplished.” We were told we were “bringing Democracy to the Middle East.” We were told that we brought the war in Iraq “to a responsible end.”

This doesn’t look our mission was accomplished to me. This doesn’t look like Democracy to me. This doesn’t look like a responsible end to me. But judge for yourself. Here are some headlines out of Iraq today:

If you ask me, this president and his predecessor in the White House (who launched this ill-fated war) have a lot of explaining to do to the American people. If these events finish the current course they’re on, the Iraq War will belong in the same conversation as slavery and infanticide as the worst tragedies of this nation’s history.